KG and Puff

This just in from Tony Knight:

"KG lives the good life."

That is truly a surprise. I always thought he'd marry a sister.

So here's my stance. I'm a child of God who appreciates and cherishes the fact that we live in a world with the entertaining and beautiful diversity that comes with so many different ethnicities. And only bigots can truly reconcile a feeling that people should SOLELY marry within their race.

However, I have always had a small problem with black men marrying outside of their race, especially white women. Before I'm cast as a bigot let me explain.

The Black Family is an absolute, utter shambles. There's no doubt in my mind that we have the highest percentage of single parent families. The Black Family was under assault from the second the European settlers tore them apart during the slave trade. Of course, seperating families is the best way to keep these people weak, they thought. And they were right.

The Black Family never really recovered from that. And these days, you have the problem of kids having unprotected sex, making babies and immature black boys splitting when it comes time to care for the poor children. I mean, the ailments of the Black Family are so numerous its probably best suited for a dissertation, not a blog post.

Anyways, anytime there is an eligible black man that could do some good by marrying a black woman and fortifying the community with a strong family unit, I think that's what should be done.

But too many times, black men with good gigs, especially ones that ascend to particularly successful heights, go and marry a white woman.

As always it goes back to slavery. There was some incredible conditioning that took place for a good six or seven generations that will not be undone anytime soon. One major result of the slavery/reconstruction/jim crow conditioning was the "angelizing" of the white woman. Of course a white man could do anything and everything with a black woman, but a black man would be lynched for merely looking at a woman.

Well once it was no longer illegal for black men to consort with white women, there was an all-out pursuit. yes, that's simplifying things and leaving out many other important variables, but it the gist of the problem.

What it's done is create a complex within many black men. White is Right, Black is Wack.

It's sad. Black women spend their whole life raising you and loving you; and then when you get a little dough or status, you turn your back on the community and ethnic gender that nurtured you and go marry a white women, move to the burbs and forget the hood.

It's a wicked cycle.

I even play a game, where I try to figure out -- based on personality, upbringing, disposition and gut-feeling -- whether they have or will marry a balck woman.

For instance:

Jamie Foxx will marry a black woman.
But what about Don Cheadle?

Allen Iverson married a black woman.
Rasheed Wallace was definitely gonna marry a black woman.
But something tells me LeBron will marry a white woman.

We all know football players refuse to marry black women, but there are a few that buck that trend.
But is there any doubt that Terrell Owens will marry a white woman (if he doesn't seek a civil union with another man)? He fits the profile to a T.

In other news:

I heard the new Puff joint. He's goin hard. The theme of the song is similar to his joint "Public Enemy Number 1". Except I think this joint is dope. I don't know who's writing his ryhmes right now, but if you ask me, Puff is spittin. Doesn't really sound like Loon is ghost-writing. Maybe it's Ness.

Ultimately, I think Puff is the best story. I used to hate my man, now he's like the collest kat to me.

My man Tony Knight from the Strict, who's pretty much the Bible on 68% of hiphop, said it best: "Puff is harmless". I always thought that was avery astute observation. Bak in the day, Puff was obviously a vanguard of the movement that threatened to ruin the genre and ultimately damaged it pretty severely.

But then Puff weathered all that backlash, came back without his Big Gun named Biggie and he was basically just a fun-loving entrepenuer that did party-style hop. Can't front on that. He no longer has the clout to influence the direction of the music...so if he comes out with a Pharrell track spellin his name in the chorus, bitin off a classic Kris track, who cares? Not me. Do you Diddy.